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- It actually starts as a fan tribute to the games and hosted on the equivalent of Youtube (think like There Will be Brawl) as a loving in joke between some friends that got turned into a decently sized production for TV
- Tsumugi actually wrote it as a bit of fanfiction during class one day and everything tumbled down hill as a result
- Shuichi found it first bc she tripped while carrying it and she has a breakdown like "Oh shit I'm so sorry" and he's like The class president is a danganronpa fan? And doesn't even care about the fanfic part.
- He then introduces her to Kaede and the others and everyone just works out like that
- Like 99% of the dirty jokes that Miu makes are adlibbed as all hell and like half of the takes can't be used because everyone goes off script and dying laughing.
- Everyone contributed a bit to the script, and before you ask, Kokichi was the one who added the incest plot as a joke, he expected Tsumugi to remove it.
- At some point Makoto and the others notice and are like "we can get you a bigger set and stuff." and everyone is like "yes please."
- Somehow someway, someone gets the idea of a robot. Of course Miu and Tsumugi just go right onto the idea.
- The resulting mess is an animatronic looking human who can't even speak let alone act.
- So they just decide "fuck it, let's animate this thing muppet style." and do the same for Monokuma, the Monokubs, and anything else really.
- The guy they actually based Kiibo on finds out about it and isn't mad, and when listening to him, everyone just asks if he can voice their Ultimate "Robot". He's super stoked as he's wheel chair bound and actually has severe stage fright so this is the closest he can ever get to acting.
- Monokuma is portrayed by whoever isn't in the shot at the time and Shuichi just dubs the voice later with some wierd filters.
- The Monokubs are portrayed by the Warriors of Hope (Minus Monoca because fuck her), and Monodam is portrayed by Rantaro. I have no idea how they'd work in this au.
- Absolute hardest part of filming (besides the executions) was the scene where Monokuma was chasing after Kirumi because 1, Kaito couldn't see for shit in that big ass mascot costume, 2, the head kept falling off, and 3, Kirumi kept laughing as she was being chased.
- Kaede actually has a choker she wears off camera that you can briefly see on camera during her execution. Everyone thought they edited it out but it made tons of memes.
- The Tenko gross out face wasn't even made by her, it was made by Ryoma first, then Himiko imitated it and then Tenko copied that from an off camera Himiko.
- A few of the quirks in the characters are shared by their actors. Gonta speaks in 3rd person when stressed (and is left handed), Ryoma did kill a mafia member (in self defense in his own home), Kaede is a piano player (but not to the extremes of her Ultimate), and Kirumi is actually in a position of power, just not the prime minister.
- Dice is just Kokichi's DND group and once they found out their dm was going to be on tv, they flipping went nuts. They were so proud of him. They even bombarded a set and ruined a take because they were so proud.
- It took at least double the time to photoshop out the net in Kirumi's execution than it did the rest of the episode, and that had piranhas eating Ryoma. Well, stock footage pirhanas but still piranhas.
- That coughing during Kaito's execution? He had the flu. This mad man came in with the flu and was like "mount me in that spaceship motherfucker." After the execution everyone demanded he go home and he only did once Gonta carried him out of the room.
- Even after executions everyone shows up for recording just to be there. Plus they usually bring food for the actors still involved.
- The guts in Kokichi's death were actually watermelons Tenko had grown (she's got like 80 of them, she's ok if 2 get smashed for recording)
- Maki is actually the newest actor and is the most rookie of them. A good number of her takes had to be redone because she kept overreacting and not being the "cold hearted killer." The scene where she pins Kokichi to the wall, 100% first take.
- She's actually a babysitter which is where her fake title comes from. Half the time she's having to resist telling Kokichi that he's going to be put in time out if he doesn't stop acting like a little shit.